Why the diet is called Japanese is hard to say - half of the food that is recommended to be eaten by the Japanese is exotic.
My experience of sitting on diets is that I would hardly want to volunteer for this self-torture tool. If not one "but": I have personally seen the results of a two-week sitting "Japanese" diet. Just like in a magazine: "before" and "after. "However, the principle of beauty and health matters perhaps works best.
Why the diet is called Japanese is hard to say - half of the food that is recommended to be eaten by the Japanese is exotic. According to legend, the diet was created by specialists of the Japanese clinic "Yaeks", but no more traces of this office were found on the English-speaking Internet.
Lyrically sentimental deviation
I have to say that I admire the courage of people who are able to feel the indirect weight loss recipe and immediately try it for themselves. I myself am wary of diets. Life brought me together twice.
For the first time, in severe form, when I caught some stomach infection in the mountains and at an altitude of 3, 000 meters for three weeks, I simply couldn’t eat: everything immediately asked me to come back. The second time I decided to limit my diet to 1000 calories a day. For almost a month, my diet was morning coffee with ice cream, which is good for lunch, and frozen vegetables for dinner. I learned that the diet should be balanced much later.
So the first question I asked was: is the Japanese diet balanced? "Roughly, but amino acids aren’t enough, " replied the biochemist buddy, "you’ll be uncomfortable - horror with a gun. His fears of my hypothetical increased anger did not materialize. For the first two days, the body was suppressed by the sudden disappearance of normal food from his life. And realizing it was a long time, but not forever, he became silent and indifferent.
Charm and frustration
As it happens during each experiment with myself, I have compiled a list of charms and disappointments. Or, the inconvenience and pleasure of dieting.
1 inconvenience
The diet is strict. Because, according to the authors, it is designed to change metabolism. Therefore, the slightest deviation from the course (even toast, even an apple) - and the expected effect is not guaranteed. This is what is expected: separation from 5 to 8 kilograms and stabilization of weight in the future.
2 inconveniences
It’s very hard to come to the business lunch and flirtatiously ask me, please, for two hard-boiled eggs and 200 grams of grated carrots. Generally, such requests remain unfulfilled. Therefore, you will need to carry all the settings in your handbag. And, most likely, prepare diet meals the day before.
Pleasant number 1
Adhering to a 13-day Japanese diet will cost you about 2 times less than a daily business lunch or lunch at work. And even more - buying food for the home.
Pleasant number 2
In general, it is better not to start a strict diet if at least half of the food it makes up is uncomfortable for you. Since I ate with great enthusiasm in a "normal life" and fish, and boiled beef, and carrots, and kefir, and cabbage, it was actually fun to see them on my table.
Many people ask questions about drinking coffee every morning - isn’t that harmful? If you have heart problems or high blood pressure, coffee can have a negative effect. And before you start a Japanese diet, it is worth consulting your doctor.
Full range of sensations
During the first two days of the diet, I was haunted by sight: as soon as I closed my eyes, a thinly baked pancake appeared before my inner gaze, spontaneously rolling into a tube. Then someone pleasantly immersed me in the strawberry jam and brought it to my face. There were no olfactory hallucinations. After two days, the pancake was behind.
A stony indifference and a calm approach to culinary delights began, which has continued to this day. That doesn’t mean I’ll strictly give up if I’m offered to try something delicious. But the nervous tremor of "there’s so much food out there" is no more.
I didn’t lose that much - only 4 pounds, but the weight doesn’t increase anymore. I don't know who to thank for that: the creators of the Japanese diet or myself - for exercising twice a week. The only detail: following a diet weakens noticeably, and in the end it becomes problematic to open an unopened bottle of mineral water. But then the strength recovers quickly.
The long-awaited recipe
Day 1
Breakfast:black coffee.
Dinner:2 hard boiled eggs, boiled cabbage salad with vegetable oil, a glass of tomato juice.
Dinner:fried or boiled fish.
Day 2
Breakfast:black coffee, toast.
Dinner:fried or boiled fish, vegetable salad, cabbage with vegetable oil.
Dinner:100 grams of boiled beef, a glass of kefir.
Day 3
Breakfast:black coffee, toast.
Dinner:large fried zucchini in vegetable oil.
Dinner:2 hard boiled eggs, 200 grams of boiled beef, fresh cabbage salad with vegetable oil.
Day 4
Breakfast:black coffee.
Dinner:1 raw egg, 3 large boiled carrots with vegetable oil, 15 grams of hard cheese.
Dinner:fruit.
Day 5
Breakfast:green carrots with lemon juice.
Dinner:fried or boiled fish, a glass of tomato juice.
Dinner:fruit.
Day 6
Breakfast:black coffee.
Dinner:half a boiled chicken, fresh cabbage or carrot salad.
Dinner:2 hard boiled eggs, a glass of green carrots with vegetable oil.
Day 7
Breakfast:tea.
Dinner:200 grams of boiled beef, fruit.
Dinner:whatever you want from dinner, except for day 3 (cooked crabs can be used).
Day 8
Breakfast:black coffee.
Dinner:half a boiled chicken, fresh cabbage or carrot salad.
Dinner:2 hard boiled eggs, a glass of green carrots with vegetable oil.
Day 9
Breakfast:green carrots with lemon juice.
Dinner:large fried or boiled fish, a glass of tomato juice.
Dinner:fruit.
Day 10
Breakfast:black coffee.
Dinner:1 raw egg, 3 large boiled carrots with vegetable oil, 15 grams of hard cheese.
Dinner:fruit.
Day 11
Breakfast:black coffee, toast.
Dinner:1 large fried zucchini in vegetable oil.
Dinner:2 hard boiled eggs, 200 grams of boiled beef, fresh cabbage salad with vegetable oil.
Day 12
Breakfast:black coffee, toast.
Dinner:fried or boiled fish, vegetable salad, cabbage with vegetable oil.
Dinner:100 grams of boiled beef, a glass of kefir.
Day 13
Breakfast:black coffee.
Dinner:2 hard boiled eggs, boiled cabbage salad with vegetable oil, a glass of tomato juice.
Dinner:fried or boiled fish
You can drink mineral water or just boiled water between meals without any restrictions. And - let me remind you - never deviate from the stated diet.